The Art Of Embodied Transformation

I always feel like this part of the year has its own internal gravity. Everything feels closer to the bone. There is less pretending. Less decorating our feelings with explanations. Scorpio Season takes us inward, into the places we store memory, longing, disappointment, intuition, and instinct. It asks us to tell the truth to ourselves, even if we don’t say it out loud yet. 

As a Scorpio, there’s a familiarity here. A kind of homecoming. My system knows this territory. The darkness isn’t frightening, it’s clarifying. Things are sharper here. The intuition is louder. The emotional intelligence is more honest.

But this kind of emotional and psychic depth can feel heavy if we don’t have something to ground into. Which is exactly why the Full Moon in Taurus on November 5 feels so significant. Taurus is the ground that holds the transformation. The Earth under the water. The part of us that remembers we have a body, that we exist in physical form. That we need nourishment and touch and rhythm and steadiness to feel safe enough to actually change.

We have been doing inner excavation since the New Moon in Libra. Libra wants us to look at our relationships and our interdependence. Where we give too much. Where we retreat too quickly. Where we have allowed ourselves to compromise what we know to keep the peace. 

Scorpio season takes us deeper and asks us to understand what drives those compromises. What we are afraid will happen if we stop?. What part of us carries the old wound that says we must earn love, or earn ease, or earn permission to be who we are?

The Full Moon in Taurus steps in and tells us to bring our newfound understandingit into our bodies. Let it be real. Let it take form in your daily life. Let it be part of how you breathe and how you choose and how you move. Taurus energy is slow and steady. It asks for presence, not performance. Embodiment, not explanation. It reminds us that healing isn’t conceptual. It is physical. It is emotional. It is lived. It is felt in tiny ordinary moments that no one else sees.

If you are doing the Kirtan Kriya challenge, you may have already noticed some shiftshappening in your system. Not dramatic, but unmistakable. The mantra Sa Ta Na Ma works in a quiet, rhythmic way that gets under the mental stories and starts unraveling patterns from the nervous system itself. You cannot overthink your way into healing. You have to re-pattern the pathways that your thoughts and emotions travel though. That is what a Kirtan Kriya practice does. It doesn’t force or rush. It simply teaches the body to trust new ways of being.

If you haven’t started yet, it is not too late. This is actually the perfect moment to begin. The Full Moon in Taurus is the grounding support that allows emotional transformation to land in the body. And with Mercury going retrograde on November 9, we are entering a period where reflection, revision, reorientation, and return are natural. Starting Kirtan Kriya now aligns your internal rhythm with what is already happening around you.

Start now. Begin gently. Let the meditation hold you through your healing, transformation, and rebirth.

Taurus rules the part of us connected to the body. Our senses. Our comfort. Our need to rest. Our right to experience pleasure. Our yearning to slow down. The world often pushes for urgency and speed. But urgency is usually a trauma response, and rushing in the wrong direction is a recipe for disaster. The body opens slowly. Safety is communicated through repetition. Trust is built by consistency. If Scorpio season shows us what needs to change, Taurus reminds us that the change must be gentle enough for the nervous system to believe it is safe.

In myself, I notice this in the smallest, most ordinary moments. The ones no one else sees. The moment I pause before responding. The moment I catch myself about to run from a feeling, and instead take one deep breath and stay. The moment I choose to put my hand on my heart instead of picking up my phone to distract myself. These are the places where the real work happens. Not in the dramatic spiritual highs, but in the micro-choices that slowly re-teach the nervous system that it is safe to feel. Safe to receive. Safe to soften. Safe to want. Safe to be in the world.

Taurus moments arequiet, consistent, and human. They  allow Scorpio’s transformative fires to not just purify us, but to create something new.

Mercury going  retrograde on November 9 takes all of this way below surface level. We will revisit emotional patterns and witness our unfinished healing. Our intuition will be sharpened to the point that ignoring truth will be physically uncomfortable. But because this is happening right after the Full Moon in Taurus, we are being given the grounding we need to receive those messages without overwhelm.

It will be intense, but you will be okay.

This is where the shift happens. Not in the breakthrough moment, but in what we do after.

Begin where you are. Begin as you are. Begin gently.

Let your body soften. Let your heart open in tiny increments. Trust that what is unfolding is not random. It is right on time.

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